103. Fear and Helplessness

Erica

“Can we keep him? Take him with us?”

For a long minute he didn’t say anything as he kept staring at the dog. And then, I watched him change in front of my eyes.

I remembered the time when I had realised what was happening to me. What was being done to me. When my nightmares had turned into reality and when I had seen myself in the mirror after that horrible night. I remembered how I had looked. Just the way Antonio looked right now. Lost and broken. And fûcking angry. So angry, the rage was a palpable being between us.

Instincts told me to step back but I was frozen and then... I didn’t know how it happened. Just as carefully as Antonio took the dog from me with as much force he slammed me against the wall. His face was red and his eyes were dark like the night sky without moon and the stars. “Don’t touch them. Don’t fucking touch them.” His voice wasn’t cold or heated how it normally gets when he wants to subdue me. But it was shaking, filled with emotions that I knew too well